Missions & Complexes

Hello there.
I think it should be changed how Amarr pilots are getting missions regarding Guristas and Serpentis. The problem with these missions is especially clear in level 4 missions where both Guristas and Serpentis ships resistance to EM and Thermal are way too high, and require either incredible amount of dps or require that the damage done is Kinetic which is not available for us who prefer to fly Amarr ships.

One specific mission which has been one of the most hated missions for a long time is The Assault - Level 4 regarding Guristas. This problem was even stated back in 2008 in [url]http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=837226[/url] but has not been fixed or looked over by CCP.

I hope this will be looked into since it's very time consuming and frustrating to do these missions.

Many regards
Celthric

Currently I fly around with both Conflag and Scorch... The biggest reason I dislike it is because I use more isk on Crystal damage than I earn from the mission itself, so in the long run I'm losing isk.

And/or a key and a blap fit. That thing is ridiculously easy if you just blitz it in a tach fit.

And honestly, therein lies the key. Just use tachs and do as much thermal damage as you can. Pulses are much more locked into EM and so are dramatically less suitable for Serpentis. Against Guristas... eh. You're kinda screwed but thermal will still help.

Take it or leave it, but I'd suggest you look at that a different way. Rather than pulses lacking, think of tachs as being ******* amazeballs. All things being equal, tachs see a ~6% DPS drop compared to pulses using the same crystals. In exchange, you get over twice the optimal and a highly workable amount of falloff. If you can manage transversal, tachs, unlike 425s and 1400s, should almost always manage to outdamage their short range competition. The fact that you also get more damage type options is just icing on an already great cake.

Normally long-range weapons do less DPS but tachs do comparable DPS to pulses because they have an insane amount of cap consumption and an insane fitting requirement. There's a reason people love tachs so much.

Umm.... What??

I do this in a Navy Apocalypse all the time. . It doesn't have close to 1k DPS and definitely doesn't have an unbreakable tank.

you could, i dunno, train a different weapon system. This is EVE. There's no such thing as a one-ship win button for each and every mission. If there was, CCP would nerf it into the dust.

lol no did not buy it. I built it cos I had about a bill of SOE LP sitting around and was bored (blitzing SOE IV's at Lanngisi builds up about 100k or so LP a night without even trying) :D

But after trying unsuccessfully to fit it for anything useful I gave up and sold it. I got about 1.6 Bill when I cashed it in which is pretty much on par with cashing the same LP in on SOE probe launchers in terms of ISK/LP - though of course I did waste a fair bit of time mucking about with it.

For the assault. MWD to the gate in the first room and activate as it isn't locked. align to the far group and use a micro jump drive then kill them with short range ammo. Bam mission done in like 5-7 mins even with an amarr ship. Hell 7 mins was on the long side back when I was just using long range ammo from the warp in of the second room.

as for Dread Pirate Scarlett, hell I dunno, I only ever blitz that with a mach. A volley of tachs would probably work just fine too.

Try zapping the frigs at range with scorch and them jumping into position.